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Jeremy Kyle’s hypocrisy over the right to privacy deserves its own show | Marina Hydehttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/25/jeremy-kyle-hyprocrisy-children-privacy-daytime-tv
The daytime TV host is trying to protect his children from news of his separation from his wife. If only he were as concerned about others’ children<p>Is there a British citizen who understands the importance of silence, restraint and decorum more exquisitely than <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/jeremykyle">Jeremy Kyle</a>? I am moved to ask as the human-baiting impresario and his lawyers move self-parodically into action over the matter of his separation.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/apr/22/life-after-jeremy-kyle-treatment">Fight club: Life after the Jeremy Kyle treatment</a> </p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2014/jul/17/magaluf-jeremy-kyle-pepper-spraying">How Magaluf took the moral high ground by pepper spraying Jeremy Kyle</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/25/jeremy-kyle-hyprocrisy-children-privacy-daytime-tv">Continue reading...</a>PrivacyJeremy KylePrivacy & the mediaDaytime TVMediaTelevision & radioCultureTelevisionUK newsWorld newsFri, 25 Sep 2015 16:18:07 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/25/jeremy-kyle-hyprocrisy-children-privacy-daytime-tvPhotograph: ITV/REXPhotograph: ITV/REXMarina Hyde2015-09-25T16:18:07ZJeremy Kyle's sadistic moralising conveys a wider social resentment | Richard Seymourhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/15/jeremy-kyle-sadistic-moralising-wider-social-resentment
The poor are blamed for general reckless borrowing and a lack of financial discipline, and TV bosses know just how to exploit them<p>A 17-year-old woman is called a thief and a crackhead and is tormented and humiliated on national television. Amid all these taunts the host of the programme, Jeremy Kyle, interrupts and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/14/jeremy-kyle-teenager-distressed-itv" title="The Guardian: Jeremy Kyle criticised over 'distressed and humiliated' teenager">pruriently informs viewers that she has a "reputation"</a> and is said to have slept with 33 men. ITV says this did not violate broadcasting standards because, after all, the young woman appeared to accept "the allegation" that she has an active sex life.</p><p>Of course, the veracity or otherwise of the allegation is beside the point, as is whether the young women accepted it. The fact that it is considered an "allegation", that it invokes a stigma, is the point. This is sexist, but it is also linked to social sadism. Sadism is hardly particular to "<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/sep/24/television" title="The Guardian: Kyle show 'human bear baiting'">bear-baiting" shows like Kyle's</a>. It is an integral component of a great deal of neoliberal popular culture. In reality TV, such as Big Brother, it comes in the form of a host or a disembodied voice playing the impartial enforcer of the rules, but which is actually imposing irrational superego injunctions and distributing punishments and rewards in a totally unaccountable way. That represents one aspect of neoliberal ideology: life is a lottery, stuff just happens, there is no morality in either winning or losing, but we nonetheless accept the outcome and enjoy the suffering of the loser.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/15/jeremy-kyle-sadistic-moralising-wider-social-resentment">Continue reading...</a>Jeremy KyleITV channelMediaSocietyTelevision industryAusterityBusinessUK newsTue, 15 Apr 2014 15:54:12 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/15/jeremy-kyle-sadistic-moralising-wider-social-resentmentPhotograph: ITV/RexJeremy Kyle 'tearing at his subjects' exposed wounds – often class injuries – is the emotional crescendo of the programme.' Photograph: ITV/RexPhotograph: ITV/RexJeremy Kyle 'tearing at his subjects' exposed wounds – often class injuries – is the emotional crescendo of the programme.' Photograph: ITV/RexRichard Seymour2014-04-15T15:54:12ZLet's declare war on Jeremy Kyle and his idle-bashers | Belinda Webbhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/aug/20/jeremy-kyle-war-idle-bashers
The apathy of many of those Kyle denounces is driven more by the hopelessness and inhumanity of modern work than idleness<p>That bastion of useful productivity, Jeremy Kyle, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2010/aug/19/jeremy-kyle-sun-benefit-scroungers" title="Guardian: Jeremy Kyle wages war on idleness">has declared war on idleness</a>. The language is Victorian. So, too, the sentiment.</p><p>I say a war needs to be declared on Kyle and those of his faux-furious ilk who have grown filthy-rich and famous from the ritual humiliation and exploitation of the very people they admonish.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/aug/20/jeremy-kyle-war-idle-bashers">Continue reading...</a>Jeremy KyleJimmy ReidTelevisionRecessionMediaBusinessSocietyUK newsFri, 20 Aug 2010 16:00:42 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/aug/20/jeremy-kyle-war-idle-bashersPhotograph: Rex FeaturesTalkshow host Jeremy Kyle has declared war on idleness. Photograph: ITV/Rex FeaturesPhotograph: Rex FeaturesTalkshow host Jeremy Kyle has declared war on idleness. Photograph: ITV/Rex FeaturesBelinda Webb2010-08-20T16:00:42ZEditorial: The government should not look to Jeremy Kyle for answershttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/sep/07/itv.television
<p>What is wrong with The Jeremy Kyle Show? Unhappy families are paraded before a studio audience and derided for reprobate behaviour by a pugnacious presenter. </p><p>If the only criteria for evaluating broadcasts is whether or not they entertain people, there is nothing to be said against ITV1's popular daytime show. But there are other values - decency, dignity, social responsibility - that it is legitimate to apply in judging such a circus, not least because ITV has a public service mandate. The programme's producers say they serve and protect their guests, providing them with catharsis on screen and counselling back stage. Participation, they say, is a voluntary and mutually beneficial contract. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/sep/07/itv.television">Continue reading...</a>ITV plcTelevision industryMediaEconomic policyWelfarePoliticsMental healthSocial exclusionSocietyJeremy KyleSat, 06 Sep 2008 23:01:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/sep/07/itv.televisionEditorial2008-09-06T23:01:00ZBoy troublehttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/feb/12/boytrouble
We need to think hard about the place of young men in society, but politicians need to look beyond Jeremy Kyle to find the answers<p>I've never seen the <a href="http://www.itv.com/jeremykyle/">Jeremy Kyle show</a>, but I think I know what <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/feb/11/conservatives.television">Chris Grayling meant yesterday</a>. He identifies an important set of issues: what masculinity means to young men in 21st century Britain; who their role models are; and how to make a good education more attractive and accessible than materialism and criminality. The question is whether Grayling's diagnosis of the problem is accurate and whether his solutions are the right ones.</p><p>Let's start with the nature of the problem. It is true that too many young men grow up without role models. Fathers need to be made aware of their responsibilities - and that's up to all of us to communicate, as parents, as politicians and as members of a community. But there is more to the issue than this.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/feb/12/boytrouble">Continue reading...</a>SocietyFamilyLife and styleJeremy KyleMediaDavid LammyTue, 12 Feb 2008 16:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/feb/12/boytroubleDavid Lammy2008-02-12T16:00:00ZThou shalt not Kylehttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/oct/01/thoushaltnotkyle
The partnership between Jeremy Kyle and Learndirect looked entirely sensible. Which is why, in the topsy-turvy logic of sponsorship deals, it was doomed to failure.<p>Several years ago, I went for a job interview with a company that brokered sponsorship deals involving the education sector. The interviewer explained that one of their latest projects involved McDonald's sponsoring a schools' football tournament. Naively, I questioned the logic of encouraging kids to take healthy exercise, and then selling them junk food. I think I suggested that it might make more sense to ask Outspan to sponsor the half-time oranges.</p><p>Obviously I didn't get the job, and equally obviously I don't understand the convoluted leaps of reason that make two disparate entities suitable partners in a sponsorship deal. But when I heard that <a href="http://www.learndirect.co.uk/">Learndirect</a>, the government-backed adult education service, was sponsoring The Jeremy Kyle Show on ITV1, it appeared to be an eminently sensible match. By which point Learndirect had <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7019266.stm">pulled out</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/oct/01/thoushaltnotkyle">Continue reading...</a>CultureEducationMcDonald'sTelevision industryJeremy KyleMediaMon, 01 Oct 2007 10:30:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/oct/01/thoushaltnotkyleTim Footman2007-10-01T10:30:00Z